Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> I've even managed to run konqueror as file browser from Gnome's Dash,

> There remains a (small) annoyance: I've set up three links on my
> Desktop (to a
> local directory and two NFS shares) and they appear as useless files
> on the Gnome Desktop.

Why not set them up as tabs in Konqueror (save view profile w/ links)?
You could also set them up as tabs in the navigation bar... or add the
links to the TDE task bar. What are you trying to change, ~/Desktop is
a directory?